Michelle Lisa Herman is an interdisciplinary artist who uses various media to explore the ideas of human interaction and connection.

She has most recently exhibited her work at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Synergy, an exhibition featuring the DCCAH’s 2011 Visual & Media Artist Fellows and the Smithsonian’s International Gallery in Revealing Culture.

I am going to make you into art. Simply fill out my survey at www.unfamilia.org and you, yes YOU, will be transformed into art.

How can I do such a thing? It’s easy! All the information submitted through the site will be compiled into a narrative literary work. This work will take the form of either a play, multiple narrative poems, or a combination. Within this work, all participants will be transformed into characters whose traits are drawn directly from the information given in the survey.

The survey I have created is modeled from the extensive questionnaires asked by dating sites, such as Match.com and Eharmony.com, in order to create an accurate "personality profile" for each participant in the project.

While the literature will be based off the information submitted, I will not use any last names, as to protect your identity, etc.

Please take a minute of your day to go to my site www.unfamilia.org and fill out my survey. Everyone who fills it out will become art!

The survey I have created is based on the extensive questionaires asked by dating sites, such as Match.com and Eharmony.com, in order to create an accurate "personality profile" for each participant in the project.

All the information submitted through the site will be compiled into a narrative literary work. This work will take the form of either a play, multiple narrative poems, or a combination. Within this work, all participants will be transformed into characters whose traits and story are based off the information given in the survey.

While the literature will be based off the information submitted, I will not use any last names, as to protect your identity, etc.

To see or hear the final result, come back to unfamilia.org on December 12th!

Please take a minute of your day to go to my site www.unfamilia.org and fill out my survey. Everyone who fills it out will become art!

The survey I have created is based on the extensive questionaires asked by dating sites, such as Match.com and Eharmony.com, in order to create an accurate "personality profile" for each participant in the project.

All the information submitted through the site will be compiled into a narrative literary work. This work will take the form of either a play, multiple narrative poems, or a combination. Within this work, all participants will be transformed into characters whose traits and story are based off the information given in the survey.

While the literature will be based off the information submitted, I will not use any last names, as to protect your identity, etc.

To see or hear the final result, come back to unfamilia.org on December 12th!

The site, UnFamilia.org, is the first phase of a user-based content project and collaborative endeavor requiring information submitted by many, many users.

You go to the site, fill out the survey, and voile! You will become art! Michelle will compile all information submitted into a literary work. It will either take the form of a play or narrative poems.

In creating this site, Michelle hopes to take the unfamiliar users and create a virtual "family."